"Richard Van Helsing, a vampire who destroyed Count Dracula. Along with Professor Challenger, Holmes visited a secret valley of dinosaurs in South America in 1896, which became the basis for Doyle's novel ""The Lost World"". The same year he worked with the American Secret Service ""Elsewhere"" to stop paranormal threats from another dimension. In 1910 he discovered a life extension serum. At the beginning of World War I he had a final confrontation with Professor Moriarty. After the war, he moved to Ukraine, giving Arthur Conan Doyle the task to convince everyone that he was just an imaginary character. With"
"The Lost World (TV series) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ""The Lost World"". The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT in April). It ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To this day, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets in"
"The Lost World (1992 film) The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is set in Africa rather than the book's setting of South America, and the character of Lord John Roxton has been replaced with a female character played by Tamara Gorski. It was followed by a sequel the same year, Return to the Lost World, with the same director and main cast. Set in 1912, the film opens on Edward Malone, a junior reporter looking for an adventurous assignment. Malone is sent to interview"
"based on Conan Doyle's friend, the British Consul and Irish nationalist Roger Casement. The following actors have portrayed Roxton in adaptations of ""The Lost World"": Lord John Roxton Lord John Roxton (a fictional title derived from the English parish of Roxton, Bedfordshire) is a supporting character in the Professor Challenger series of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. He makes his initial appearance in the first entry of this series, ""The Lost World"", wherein he is a member of the expedition to the eponymous land of the title, and is a prominent character in some of the subsequent stories as well,"
"Arthur Conan Doyle - El Mundo Perdido, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"" bilingual French Spanish, Numéro 9, Année 1, Asuncion 2013. Lost world The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian adventure romance and remains popular into the 21st century. The genre arose during an era when the fascinating remnants of lost civilizations around the world were being discovered, such as the tombs of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the semi-mythical stronghold of Troy,"
"The Story of the Lost Special ""The Story of the Lost Special"", sometimes abbreviated to ""The Lost Special"", is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published as part of the ""Round the Fire"" series in ""The Strand Magazine"" of August 1898. It is implied to be a Sherlock Holmes story, though his name is not used. The story's narrative mode is third person, subjective, though the narrator is not identified. This story concerns the baffling disappearance of a privately hired train (a special) on its journey from Liverpool to London on 3 June 1890; besides the train crew"
"DVD in 4:3 PAL under the title, ""The Lost World The Beginning"" by ILC Prime licensed by Fremantle Corporation. Note: The Pilot TV Movie was edited down into episodes 1 ""The Journey Begins"" & episode 2 ""Stranded"" for the TV series. The Lost World (TV series) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ""The Lost World"". The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT"
"Percival), is unhappy being kept in a zoo, they release him, allowing him to fly back to the ""lost world"". The Lost World (1992 film) The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is set in Africa rather than the book's setting of South America, and the character of Lord John Roxton has been replaced with a female character played by Tamara Gorski. It was followed by a sequel the same year, Return to the Lost World, with the same director and main cast. Set in"
"The Lost World (1998 film) The Lost World is a 1998 film, loosely based on the book of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mongolia, 1934. The researcher Maple White (Jack Langedijk), together with his assistant Azbek (Russell Yuen), discovers an unknown world populated by dinosaurs, situated on a plateau in Mongolia. After having found a Quetzalcoatlus's egg in a cave, White celebrates the discovery, with Azbek, uncorking a bottle of champagne and listening to classical music. Azbek is attacked and killed by Eudimorphodons, which also attacks White who falls from the plateau holding onto a rope; he survives"
"Arthur Conan Doyle) fooled by the Cottingley Fairies hoax In 1937 he traveled to South Africa to stay with friends Mr and Mrs Quail and their daughter Ethelwynne, who was an artist. Under Hodson’s guidance she painted the illustrations for his book, The Kingdom of the Gods. Hodson then went to Australia to be with his wife Jane, who since 1929 had progressive paralysis due to multiple sclerosis. She died in 1962. He served there as president of the Blavatsky Lodge, and a Perth theosophist Miss Sandra Chase offered to take care of his wife. In 1940 he was invited"
"The idea of a gorilla kidnapping and lusting for a human woman is an old concept as reflected in Emmanuel Frémiet's 1887 sculpture ""Gorilla Carrying off a Woman"". ""King Kong"" was influenced by the ""Lost World"" literary genre, particularly Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Lost World"" (1912) and Edgar Rice Burroughs' ""The Land That Time Forgot"" (1918), which depicted remote and isolated jungles teeming with prehistoric life. Furthermore, a film adaptation of the Doyle novel made movie history in 1925, with special effects by Willis O'Brien and the ""Kong"" crew. In one of the more blatant attempts to inject iconic cult"
"1998, and was released on DVD in 2000. The Lost World (1998 film) The Lost World is a 1998 film, loosely based on the book of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mongolia, 1934. The researcher Maple White (Jack Langedijk), together with his assistant Azbek (Russell Yuen), discovers an unknown world populated by dinosaurs, situated on a plateau in Mongolia. After having found a Quetzalcoatlus's egg in a cave, White celebrates the discovery, with Azbek, uncorking a bottle of champagne and listening to classical music. Azbek is attacked and killed by Eudimorphodons, which also attacks White who falls from"
"The Poison Belt The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing. Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from ""The Lost World"" — Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee – to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. During"
"The Land of Mist The Land of Mist is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926. Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and his old friend Edward Malone. Another friend from ""The Lost World"", Lord John Roxton, is also involved in the novel's second half. Professor Summerlee, who has died of old age around this time, is referred to by the mediums (much to the anger of Professor Challenger). Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War"
"on the making of the series. John Leonard TV critic for New York magazine praised the special effects for the time, saying ""New Zealand looks like Brazil, and the beasts are the best ever on a small screen."" Writing for DVD Talk, Holly E Ordway described the series as ""a straightforward and entertaining adventure story"", praising the modernised changes made to the book's storyline but calling the characters ""caricatures"". The Lost World (2001 film) The Lost World is a 2001 adaptation of the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle, directed by Stuart Orme and adapted by Tony"
"Another fictional railway mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, ""The Story of the Man with the Watches"", is an 1898 locked room mystery in which an unknown man is found in a railway compartment with six watches; an unnamed criminal investigator theorizes a solution to the mystery. The Story of the Lost Special ""The Story of the Lost Special"", sometimes abbreviated to ""The Lost Special"", is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published as part of the ""Round the Fire"" series in ""The Strand Magazine"" of August 1898. It is implied to be a Sherlock Holmes story, though his"
"the plateau. This is the same route hikers take today. A report by the noted South American researcher Robert Schomburgk inspired the Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle to write his novel The Lost World about the discovery of a living prehistoric world full of dinosaurs and other primordial creatures. The only non-technical route to the top is the Paraitepui route from Venezuela; any other approach will involve climbing gear. Mount Roraima has been climbed on a few occasions from the Guyana and Brazil sides, but as the mountain is entirely bordered on both these sides by enormous sheer cliffs that"
"The Lost Special (serial) The Lost Special is a 1932 American Pre-Code Universal movie serial based on the story ""The Lost Special"" by Arthur Conan Doyle. This adaptation does not include Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, and moves events to the American West. This was the 84th serial (and the 16th serial with sound) to be released by Universal. A special train carrying gold bullion is hijacked on its way from the Golconda Mine. Laying down portable tracks, the bandits take the train off the main line, hide it in an abandoned mine shaft, steal the gold, and pick up"
"These stories were written by Adrian Doyle and John Dickson Carr except as stated. A number (at least six) of the Holmes stories were written by Adrian solely. Adrian Conan Doyle Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (19 November 19103 June 1970) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, sister Jean and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley. Adrian Conan Doyle has been depicted as a race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a"
"but Castle was strongly intrigued by the possibility of the existence of fairies. Castle then took copies of the photographs to Arthur Conan Doyle, who possessed a different set of ""fairy"" photographs. Doyle was not convinced by Walsmear’s photographs with the splotches of light, but he wanted all copies of Walsmear’s photographs destroyed so that Doyle’s own ""fairy"" photographs would have less competition. Given some money by Doyle, Castle traveled by train to Burkinwell, a fictitious town in England. On the train he met a woman named Linda Drain, and the two of them were robbed by a pair of"
"Moriarty, is widely considered to be the first true example of a supervillain, while Sherlock Holmes has become a by-word for a detective. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, from 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four Conan Doyle stories are narrated by Holmes' friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr John H. Watson. The Lost World literary genre was inspired by real stories of archaeological discoveries by imperial adventurers. H. Rider Haggard wrote one of the earliest examples, ""King Solomon's Mines"" in 1885. Contemporary European politics and diplomatic manoeuvrings informed"
"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ""The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as ""His Last Bow"", and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a"
"stated that the novel's title is an homage to Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name, as well as a 1925 film adaptation of Doyle's novel, also titled ""The Lost World"". Crichton's novel also shares some story similarities with Doyle's novel, as they both involve an expedition to an isolated Central American location where dinosaurs roam. However, in Crichton's novel, the dinosaurs were recreated by genetic engineering, rather than surviving from antiquity. ""The Lost World"" was the only sequel Crichton ever wrote. ""The Lost World"" spent eight weeks as number one on the ""New York Times"" Best Seller List, from"
"""legitimise"" the burial of a coffin containing two bodies. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ""The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as ""His Last Bow"", and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London."
"house at Dryfont in Derbyshire. An apparition at the house convinced the two friends of the reality of the spirit world and they set out to explore The Land of Mist further. Challenger joined the investigation ostensibly to demonstrate the fallacies of psychic research but became convinced of the reality of intercourse with the spirits of the dead and announced his conversion in a polemic carried by The Spectator magazine. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the first person to portray Professor Challenger, dressing and making up as the professor for a photograph he wanted included in ""The Lost Worlds initial"
"use the original personages, and create a new character, the enigmatic leader of the Arcanum — Konstantin Duvall. Wheeler's brother suggested a vital element of the tale with the question: ""Why can't it be their last adventure?"""" The year is 1919 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle must investigate the murder of his mentor (and founder of ""The Arcanum""), Konstantin Duvall. To do so he must reunite the scattered members of the Arcanum: Harry Houdini, H. P. Lovecraft, and voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Doyle finds himself embroiled in a story of war as old as time itself, for possession of the"
"Conan Doyle, known for his Sherlock Holmes books, is under a large tree in the churchyard. Sir Arthur was originally buried in a vertical position in Crowborough and re-interred in Minstead by the family of his deceased first wife after the death of the second Lady Conan Doyle. Minstead figured prominently in Conan Doyle's historical novel ""The White Company."" Alleyne Edricson, the main character is the second son of the late Franklin of Minstead and brother of the Simon, Socman of Minstead. Minstead Hall was originally called the Hut and comprised two munition huts left over from the 1st World"
"King of the Lost World King of the Lost World is a 2005 film produced by The Asylum. The film is adapted loosely from ""The Lost World"" by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but the film bears a closer resemblance to the remake of ""King Kong"" released in the same year, particularly as both stories center on a giant ape. Hence, ""King of the Lost World"" is a mockbuster of said film, a tradition that ""The Asylum"" usually undergoes. A plane crashes in a remote jungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the"
"deep spiritual nature which Conan Doyle had developed in his later years. Whereas the adventures of Sherlock Holmes show the keen analytical side of Sir Arthur, novels like ""The Maracot Deep"" show that he seriously took to spiritualism in his later years. It is not marked by any particular religion though there are strong Christian and Hellenistic undertones. The Maracot Deep The Maracot Deep is a short 1929 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research"
"were modelled, respectively, on the journalist E. D. Morel and the diplomat Roger Casement, leaders of the Congo Free State reform campaign (the Congo Reform Association), which Conan Doyle supported. The setting for ""The Lost World"" is believed to have been inspired by reports of Doyle's good friend Percy Harrison Fawcett's expedition to Huanchaca Plateau in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. Fawcett organised several expeditions to delimit the border between Bolivia and Brazil – an area of potential conflict between both countries. Doyle took part in the lecture of Fawcett in Royal Geographical Society on 13 February 1911 and"
"the tepui which probably inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for writing The Lost World (a book based on stories told to Doyle by Colonel Percy Fawcett). He also studies dinosaurs (he visited most of the famous fossil sites, such as Nemegt in Mongolia, Tendaguru in Tanzania, Red Deer in Alberta, and other localities in Utah, Colorado, Montana and Patagonia) and corresponds with the world-leading palaeontologists. Another field of his interest is shamanism. In 1976 he discovered and later scientifically described the world's strongest carnivorous beetle, ""Manticora imperator"", of the tiger beetle group. He became a specialist in this group of"
"in comparison; indeed, Holmes says as much in the story. In 1893, Conan Doyle and his wife toured Switzerland and discovered the village of Meiringen in the Bernese Alps. This experience fired Conan Doyle's imagination. But this device failed in its purpose and pressure from fans eventually persuaded Doyle to bring Holmes back, writing ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" (set before ""The Final Problem"") and reviving him in ""The Adventure of the Empty House"". There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Conan Doyle to plausibly resurrect Holmes; only the few free surviving members of Moriarty's organisation and Holmes'"
"Lot No. 249 ""Lot No. 249"" is a Gothic horror short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artifacts, including a mummy. After seeing his mummy disappear and reappear, and two instances of Belligham's enemies getting attacked, Smith concludes that Bellingham is reanimating his mummy. Smith confronts Bellingham, who denies this is the case; the next day, Smith is attacked by the mummy and escapes. Smith then forces"